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Innovative, Home Improvement Startup Raises $65 Million
The U.S. home improvement industry is extremely lucrative — worth about $57.2 billion in total — so it should come as no surprise that an innovative start-up connecting homeowners to home service professionals would be able to garner a ton of fundraising. What is surprising, though, is just how much it was able to get.…
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Gender-Neutral Restrooms Required by New Law in West Hollywood
Laws are sometimes pretty hard to understand, considering the fact that they’re written in Legal English, which uses a different grammatical structure and often lacks punctuation. However, the message of one new law in West Hollywood is loud and clear: all single-stall restrooms in businesses and public places must be gender-neutral, and can’t restrict usage…
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Honda Hit With $70 Million Fine by US Safety Regulators Over Reporting Failures
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Jan. 8 that it has fined Honda a total of $70 million for the automaker’s failure to report deaths and injuries associated with its vehicles, as well as underreporting warranty claims and customer complaints. “Honda and all of the automakers have a safety responsibility they must live up to…
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How One Model Died Having the Cosmetic Surgery She’d Won in a Beauty Pageant
When 19-year-old Ecuadorian model Catherine Cando won the Reina de Durán (“Queen of Durán”) pageant in October, she also won a new car, a smart tablet and a free cosmetic surgery procedure. But the surgery, a liposuction procedure, was ultimately the prize that took Cando’s life. According to a January 13 Vice article, Cando died…
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A Former Translator Becomes One of Baghdad’s First Tattoo Artists
In the United States, tattoos are often more than a form of personal decoration: an estimated 29% of tattooed Americans surveyed said their tattoos made them feel rebellious, a sensation that is corroborated by the contempt many people still feel towards this type of body modification. A similar attitude towards tattoos reportedly exists in Iraq,…
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New Study Reveals One in Five Women Who Had Hysterectomies May Not Have Needed the Procedure
The hysterectomy is one of the most common medical procedures amongst women. More than 400,000 hysterectomies are performed in the U.S. each year. In fact, one in three women will have undergone one by the age of 60. By removing the women’s uterus or womb, hysterectomies successfully treat fibroids, endometriosis, uterine prolapse, vaginal bleeding, chronic…
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How the Online Marketing Profession Will Change in 2015
The internet is a constantly shifting entity, and the people who use it for marketing must adapt constantly to keep up with the changes. Though pay-per-click and search engine optimization specialists have led the path in the past, a shift to social media and content marketing is set to change the balance of power. According…
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Weather Forecasters Predict Continued Flooding Throughout Northern California and Oregon During Holiday Season
It’s been 50 years since Oregon and California residents experienced “The Flood of the Century,” as one NewsOK article calls the Christmas Flood of 1964. Where there are now cracked concrete slabs and broken bridges, there once stood vibrant communities that were destroyed within a matter of days by widespread flooding. Homes were filled with…
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New Jersey Man Indicted of Slew of Charges After Staging Car Accident
Police in Linden, NJ have finally uncovered the culprit of an insurance fraud ring that took insurance companies for tens of thousands of dollars. The ringleader, 28-year-old Miguel Saldivar-Liberato, was arrested for a number of charges related to staging a car accident and manipulating witnesses. According to NJ.com, Saldivar-Liberato allegedly orchestrated a staged car accident…
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Digital Printing Growing Rapidly, Poised to Overtake Offset Methods
Digital printing is growing at a rate of 25% annually and will overtake traditional offset printing within 40 years, a top official in the Indian Printing Packing and Allied Machinery Manufacturers Association told the Economic Times Dec. 15. Estimates differ on exactly how soon digital methods will make up the bulk of the printing market,…